The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released the 2026 and 2027 milk price forecast. Here is what World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski discussed about the price forecast. “Our class 3 price forecast for 2026 is up $0.10 per hundredweight to $16.25 per hundredweight,” said Jekanowski. “Our class 4 2026 price was reduced $0.25 per hundredweight, is now forecast …
Peanut farmers have a checkoff program that funds the National Peanut Board based in Atlanta, Georgia. This year they’ve had their program of work planning session and how to spend 13.1 million dollars. This is the amount of money they’ll have this year to promote peanuts. They also are talking about their new platform, Unifying Peanuts, with their new theme …
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report released after the close today, most analysts suggest it will not offer much help to the cash market or futures. In fact, one analyst called the cattle complex a train wreck in slow motion. Bottom line analysts say they must agree with live cattle and feeder cattle futures ending the week near nine-month lows. …
The Beginning of Modern Farming What we consider modern farming in the United States can trace many of its practices and innovations back to the agricultural changes that took place in the 18th century during what is commonly known as the British Agricultural Revolution. As Mark Oppold explains in this edition of American Agriculture History Minute, agriculture certainly existed long …
Roger McEowen, Professor of Agricultural Law and Taxation at Washburn University, spoke with us recently about laws surrounding H-2A workers and their effects on the agriculture industry. Here is what he shared. “You know, trends, it’s been up significantly for quite some time, but really ramped up in the past year or two,” McEowen commented. “So it’s indispensable for a …
USDA’s stocks and processing for peanuts has been announced with some new numbers lowering the number of peanuts that will go into the market this year because of a cut back in acres. There’s 5.4 billion pounds expected. That’s 2,709,000. That’s down 25 percent with a lower harvested area and offset by higher yield. The higher yield is about 200 …
The Pro Farmer Crop Tour winds up today with USDA Crop Scouts heading out a week from today. Two Pro Farmer teams meet in Rochester, Minnesota tonight, one coming from the eastern Corn Belt, one from the west. They’ll compile data from the tour this week combined with other data they’ve received from other crop areas that were not part …
The Birth of the U.S. Department of Agriculture The history of American agriculture is closely connected to the history of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which was established in 1862 during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. At the time, agriculture was central to the nation’s economy, and millions of Americans were directly involved in farming. President Lincoln referred …
The Agricultural Roots of Early America Long before European colonists arrived in North America, Indigenous peoples were developing sophisticated ways to obtain food from the land. While agricultural practices varied widely among Native American cultures and regions, the history of farming in what is now the United States reaches back thousands of years. In this edition of the American Agriculture …
The Alabama Cattlemen’s Association is looking forward to their upcoming junior fall field days. Here is Bailey Watson with the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association to tell us more. “Yeah, so we have our AJCA fall youth field days coming up in September. So we will have two free youth education opportunities available to youth 9 to 21. These field days this …
